NVIDIA, Microsoft Kick Off a New Beginning for Windows PCs With RTX Spark and AI Agents

At a Microsoft event in San Francisco on Wednesday, Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella outlined how NVIDIA and Microsoft are co-engineering hardware and software for AI agents to run on Windows PCs. NVIDIA was founded because of Windows, Huang said.

Now AI agents are coming to Windows. “If you look at the entire journey of our company, Windows was at the core of it,” Huang said, tracing back NVIDIA’s support for Windows and Microsoft over several decades. “If not for Windows there would be no GeForce.”   NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang connected that history — and his long-term vision — to the agentic era Wednesday during a fireside chat with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hosted by Sriram Krishnan, a former senior White House policy advisor on AI at the Windows AI and Surface event, held at Dogpatch Studios in San Francisco. “The thing that I really give Jensen all the credit for, quite frankly, is that consistency of vision of what this can be—not today, not tomorrow, but as a secular trend,” Nadella said. “And that’s what brings us to this moment.”  “The personal computer is the ultimate tool, it’s my ultimate tool, and for a whole generation of people, it’s our ultimate tool,” Huang said. “What happens in the era of agents, when the agent is on your computer? It is now your personal assistant.”  The event opened with Nadella before Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s EVP of Windows and Devices, walked through the Windows updates designed for the agentic era. Turning Windows into a secure platform for agents, Microsoft announced general availability of Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC), the OS-level infrastructure that lets agents run safely and persistently in the background, under operating system control. “We are building these primitives directly into Windows, so agents can be secured, observed and governed,” Davuluri explained. “With MXC, Microsoft Security, and Agent 365, we’re unlocking the full potential of agents on Windows.” Nadella returned to that theme in his talk with Huang. “We needed to make the desktop the most secure place for agents to execute,” Nadella said.  “What Satya just said is going to be the foundation of the next generation of IT as we know it,” Huang said. “Just as Windows and DirectX revolutionized how applications were built, MXC is going to revolutionize how agents are built and deployed.”  A New Beginning for Windows PCs: Preorder RTX Spark Laptops Today Among the announcements Huang and Nadella outlined Wednesday, RTX Spark puts the full NVIDIA AI stack into Windows laptops and compact desktops, with laptop preorders open today and available October 16. Compact desktops will be available for sale in November. Windows is bringing local AI closer to everyday work, while new hardware gives developers room to run increasingly capable models right on their PC. Introducing Surface Laptop Ultra, Pavan Davuluri tied that vision to NVIDIA RTX Spark.